In an apparent about-face, Apple Inc. will allow third-party applications to work directly on the iPhone, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a posting on the company's Web site Wednesday.

  Role-playing games with an Internet element are so much more captivating than equivalent electronic games that they change users' lives, cutting into their sleep and boosting the time they spend playing, a new study shows.

  The recording industry is going after an old-fashioned online bulletin board system called Usenet, filing a lawsuit against one provider on grounds it allows users to illegally distribute copyright-protected music.

  EBay Inc. reported Wednesday a third-quarter net loss of more than $936 million — a rare plunge into the red for the e-commerce juggernaut caused by previously announced charges to its Skype telecommunications division.

  Here's one thing I can say for certain about the new Palm Centro smart phone: it comes with a Sudoku game.

  The nation's largest consumer electronics chain says it has pulled all analog televisions off store shelves. Flat panel and high-definition screens have taken their place.

  The Home Depot Inc. said Wednesday that a laptop computer containing about 10,000 employees' personal data was stolen from a regional manager's car in Massachusetts.

  The government so far has done a poor job of educating the public about a 2009 nationwide switch to digital television that could unwittingly leave millions of viewers without programming they currently receive, House lawmakers said Wednesday.

  It's official: touch screens are the big new thing in cell phones this holiday season.

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  I know this may sound crazy, but I don't have a television.Skip to next paragraph This isn't a problem, except when I get glimpses of what I might be missing, like when the New York Mets choked and it was all anybody could talk about in the office that day.

  If you visited the news site Digg.com on Tuesday afternoon, you likely spotted quirky news stories chosen by the site's largely 18- to 24-year-old male audience, including "Woman Steals Man's Genitals"and "Mother Gives Birth Then Flushes Twins Down Toilet."But an audience of  …

  A new map highlights spots where there is enough wind to provide electricity to the whole world - and then some.In putting together a global and U.S. map, researchers found wind power could provide 40 times more electricity than is needed worldwide.

  Nokia on Wednesday introduced its updated Internet Tablet device, although it still lacks phone capabilities via the cellular network.